The Bouncing Souls
[PUNK] Hailing from New Jersey, Bouncing Souls is the punk band everyone can jam to.
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Crooked Generation, Improbable Cause, Winski and The Black Hats.
[ROCK] For the Music Productions, a music production company facilitating a wide array of performances by Buffalo-based artists, will present some local favorites at Sugar City this Saturday, December 10. Influenced by bands like Aerosmith, Black Sabbath and Green Day, Crooked Generation headlines the special event. Known for their “dirty, sexy, rock n’ roll” the four-person band plays both original and cover songs from punk rock to the blues.
Canalside 2016: Visualizing Lawns and Toilets
Canalside is unfinished. Like Benjamin West’s portrait of the American delegation to the 1783 Peace of Paris, the parts that are done are great, but it remains in a sort of perpetual limbo. A recent Buffalo News article underscores how the current ”lighter, quicker, cheaper” fetish has left us with a Canalside that fails to live up to its potential as a year-round attraction. The blame for that runs wide and deep, and the project is held back to this day because of it.
RIP, Frank Scheuttle
Frank Scheuttle, proprietor of SilentVoices Material Culture Gallery on Hertel Avenue, died suddenly this past Sunday, November 27.
Centerfold: Mary Louise Wyrick
15 Contestants by Mary Louise Wyrick, whose work in on view at Blue Plate Studio.
Film Review: Seasons
You’d have to be made of Cheetos dust not to be moved by this nature documentary.
Cover Art: Millie Chen
MILLIE CHEN’s new show at BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street) comprises wallpaper designs memorializing iconic events of the 1970s. This piece is dedicated to the year 1970. Read Bruce Adams’s review of the show.
Spotlight: Athena Kouimanis of Curly's
Meet Athena Kouimanis, who has reimagined Curly’s, downtown Lackawanna’s long-established destination restaurant.
Millie Chen at BT&C Gallery
At BT&C Gallery, the conceptual artist Millie Chen documents the turbulent 1970s in wallpaper designs.
This Week's Agenda from Loop Magazine
Stay in the Loop with this week’s LGBT happenings in Western New York presented by Loop Magazine!
Looking Backward: Hotel Buffalo
Ellsworth Milton Statler threw open the doors of his “skyscraper hotel” on January 18, 1908.
Artists Seen: Sylvia Coles
Sylvia Coles is a photographer, writer, activist, and arts patron.
The Supernaturalism of Christmas
The average American stereotypes Halloween as the eternal “spook night” and is surprised to hear that Christmas was once its rival.
The Buffalo 25, Immigration, and Enforcement
Local raids encompass complexities of undocumented workers and immigration enforcement.
Biff Henrich at CEPA Gallery
At CEPA Gallery, Biff Henrich examines the nature of digital photography.
This Week's Public Picks
The Public’s weekly local music reviews and previews.
Bill Bellamy
Comedian Bill Bellamy, coiner of the phrase “booty call” comes to Buffalo.
Peace Love and Grant Street
[HOLIDAY] This special holiday market takes place not in one building, but down an entire street. A slew of stores, restaurants, and pop-up shops will be participating in the block-party type event which will also feature live outdoor music, holiday arts and crafts, food trucks, a petting zoo, and an appearance from Santa, this Thursday, December 1. There’ll also be a special trolley available to transport shoppers from one end of Grant Street to the other.
Winter Masquerade Party
[ROCK] Four entertaining local bands are coming together for the holidays—or at least to try to keep warm in downtown Buffalo for a wintery weekend.
Holiday Intervention
[HOLIDAY] By now, some of us already need an intervention from the holidays. Well, the Five Points Business Association is about to make that happen. Take a break at the Holiday Intervention, a block-party-esque event this Saturday, December 3 on Rhode Island Street on Buffalo’s West Side.